We have come together today in a community of love, to witness and support the marriage of _____________ and _____________.

We celebrate this occasion which is both solemn and joyful. It is solemn because it establishes that a man and a woman should become a union of two persons. This is also a joyful time for now a love will have taken a great step toward fulfillment.

This adventure begins with the honesty existing between ___________ and ______________ and among you who witness this event. Be it known to you all that the responsibility for the integrity with which __________and ____________ make this covenant finally rests upon their own hearts and on their friends and relatives in this community.

I charge you both, that if you know any reason why you may not be joined in marriage, you so say now.

We are gathered here to join this man and this woman in marriage.

________________, will you take ______________ to be your wife (respond I Will)

(repeat after me) I ____________ take you ____________ to be my wedded wife, and I promise before these witnesses, to be your loving and faithful husband, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, to love and cherish from this day forward.

________________, will you take ______________ to be your husband (respond I Will)

(repeat after me) I ____________ take you ____________ to be my wedded husband, and I promise before these witnesses, to be your loving and faithful wife, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, to love and cherish from this day forward.

(exchange rings: both repeat after me) This ring I give thee, in token and pledge of our constant and abiding love.

By the authority vested in me by the State of Vermont, I now pronounce you husband and wife.

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